Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

1st Edition - October 23, 2014
Editors: Tim Davies, John F. Shroder
Language: English
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Landslides are the most costly geo-hazard in the world, and they’re often the cause or the result of other hazards and disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes, wildfires, and volcanic eruptions. Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters makes a close and detailed examination of major mass movements and provides measures for more thorough and accurate monitoring, prediction, preparedness, and prevention. It takes a geoscientific approach to the topic while also discussing the impacts human-induced causes such as deforestation, blasting, and building construction—underscoring the multi-disciplinary nature of the topic.

Editorial Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1. Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters: Introduction
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Understanding Landslide Hazards
- 1.3. Understanding Landslide Risks
- 1.4. Understanding Future Landslide Disasters
- 1.5. Conclusion
Chapter 2. Landslide Causes and Triggers
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Concept of Instability
- 2.3. Stability Factors
- 2.4. Summary and Conclusion
Chapter 3. Mass Movement in Bedrock
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Rock Materials
- 3.3. Mass Movement Characteristics
- 3.4. Mass Movement Types
- 3.5. Case Studies
- 3.6. Recognition and Response
- 3.7. Risk Management in Rock slopes
Chapter 4. Coseismic Landslides
- 4.1. Seismically Triggered Landslides
- 4.2. Mechanics of Earthquake-Induced Landslides
- 4.3. Stability Analysis and Hazard Assessment
- 4.4. Limitations of Current Understanding
Chapter 5. Volcanic Debris Avalanches
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Volcanic Debris Avalanches
- 5.3. Types of Volcanic Landslides
- 5.4. Deep-Seated Volcanic Landslide Deformation: Priming and Triggers
- 5.5. Deep-Seated Volcano Gravitational Deformation
- 5.6. Regional Tectonic Influences
- 5.7. Priming of Volcanic Landslides
- 5.8. Triggering Volcanic Landslides
- 5.9. The Structure of Volcanic Landslides
- 5.10. Volcanic Landslide Deposits
- 5.11. Debris Avalanche Textures and Structures
- 5.12. Secondary Hazards of Volcanic Landslides
- 5.13. Volcanic Landslide Transport Mechanisms
- 5.14. Hazards from Volcanic Landslides
- 5.15. Summary
Chapter 6. Peat Landslides
- 6.1. Introduction and Background
- 6.2. The Nature of Peat, Its Structure, and Material Properties
- 6.3. Morphology and Classification of Peat Landslides
- 6.4. Relationship Between Landslide Type and Peat Stratigraphy
- 6.5. Impacts of Peat Landslides
- 6.6. The Runout of Peat Landslides
- 6.7. Slope Stability Analysis of Peat Landslides and Geotechnical Properties
- 6.8. Historical Perspective on the Frequency of Peat Landslides
- 6.9. The Future Incidence of Peat Landslides
- 6.10. Conclusion
Chapter 7. Rock–Snow–Ice Avalanches
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Rapid Mass Movements on Glaciers
- 7.3. RSI Avalanche Propagation
- 7.4. Implications for Hazard Assessment
- 7.5. Conclusions
Chapter 8. Multiple Landslide-Damming Episodes
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Previous Work on Landslide Dams
- 8.3. Landslide-Dam Episodes: Lessons from Case Studies
- 8.4. Discussion
- 8.5. Conclusions
Chapter 9. Rock Avalanches onto Glaciers
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Processes
- 9.3. Consequences
- 9.4. Case Studies
- 9.5. Conclusions
Chapter 10. Paleolandslides
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Significance of Paleolandslides
- 10.3. Recognition and Mapping
- 10.4. Dating Paleolandslides
- 10.5. Temporal Bias
- 10.6. Role in Landscape Evolution
- 10.7. Risk Assessment
- 10.8. Conclusion
Chapter 11. Remote Sensing of Landslide Motion with Emphasis on Satellite Multitemporal Interferometry Applications: An Overview
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Brief Introduction to Differential SAR Interferometry and Multitemporal Interferometry
- 11.3. Examples of Different Scale MTI Applications to Landslide Motion Detection and Monitoring
- 11.4. Summary Discussion
Chapter 12. Small Landslides—Frequent, Costly, and Manageable
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Costs of Small-Medium Landslides
- 12.3. Frequency of Landslides
- 12.4. Management of Landslides
- 12.5. Size of Manageable Landslides
- 12.6. Conclusions
Chapter 13. Analysis Tools for Mass Movement Assessment
- 13.1. Introduction
- 13.2. The Computational Tools Available
- 13.3. Limit Equilibrium Methods
- 13.4. Limit Analysis
- 13.5. Continuum Numerical Methods
- 13.6. Distinct Element Method
- 13.7. Conclusions
Index

Tim Davies

Tim Davies is a Professor in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Canterbury (NZ). His research focusses on the application of geomorphology in prediction of landform response to disturbance, in particular in the context of natural hazard assessment and disaster impact reduction.

Affiliations and expertise

Professor, School of Geological Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

John F. Shroder

Dr. John (Jack) F. Shroder received his bachelor’s degree in geology from Union College in 1961; his masters in geology from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst in 1963, and his Ph.D. in geology at the University of Utah in 1967. He has been actively pursuing research on landforms and natural resources in the high mountain environments of the Rocky Mountains, the Afghanistan Hindu Kush, and the Karakoram Himalaya of Pakistan for over a half century. His teaching specialties have been primarily geomorphology, but also physical and historical geology and several other courses at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where he was the founding professor of the Geology major. While there he was instrumental in founding the Center for Afghanistan Studies in 1972, and he was the lead geologist for the Bethsaida Archaeological Project in Israel in the 1990s. He taught geology as an NSF-, USAID, and Fulbright-sponsored professor at Kabul University in 1977-78, as well as a Fulbright award to Peshawar University in 1983-84. He has some 63 written or edited books to his credit and more than 200 professional papers, with emphases on landslides, glaciers, flooding, and mineral resources in Afghanistan. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received Distinguished Career awards from both the Mountain and the Geomorphology Specialty Groups of the Association of American Geographers. In the recent decade as an Emeritus Professor, he served as a Trustee of the Geological Society of America Foundation where he set up a research scholarship, the Shroder Mass Movement award for masters and doctoral candidates. For the past two decades, he has been the Editor-in-Chief for the Developments in Earth Surface Processes book series of Elsevier Publishing, as well as the 10-volumes of the Treatise on Geomorphology, and the Hazards, Risks, and Disasters book series, both in second editions. Recently, Dr. Shroder was ranked among the top 2 percent of researchers worldwide by the October study conducted by Stanford University.

Affiliations and expertise

Senior Research Scholar, Center for Afghanistan Studies, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Geology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, USA

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